gastric mucosal neuroendocrine anomalies

Monday 10 December 2012

enterochromaffin-like-cell proliferations of the gastric mucosa

Endocrine cells of the gastric oxyntic mucosa, and especially the enterochromaffin-like (ECL) cells, are the progenitors of gastrin-promoted proliferative lesions whose tumorigenic potential largely depends on the background condition in which they arise.